Katy Perry will perform at the 2024 AFL Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in September.
The 39-year-old singer will headline Telstra Pre-Game Entertainment at the sporting event on Saturday, September 28.
Katy confirmed the news in a statement on Thursday, saying how happy she is to be back in Australia.
“I’m so excited to be back in Australia and back at the mighty MCG to perform in front of 100,000 of the best and loudest fans in the world at this year’s Toyota AFL Grand Final. See you in September Oi Oi Oi!” she said.
Kylie Rogers, AFL Executive General Manager Customer and Commercial, also said the AFL was extremely pleased with her performance.
‘Katy Perry is an international music icon who has been entertaining her fans for years with her chart-topping hits.’
“The AFL is delighted to have her join us for the 2024 Toyota AFL Grand Final. It will be a spectacular performance for Telstra Pre-Game Entertainment,” Rogers said.
‘The AFL continues to attract world-class artists to our sport and we are honoured that Katy Perry will be joining us to entertain a capacity crowd at the MCG and millions of fans around the world.’
Katy Perry (pictured) will perform at the 2024 AFL Grand Final at the MCG in September
The announcement comes after DailyMail.com revealed that Katy is ‘pointing fingers at everyone but herself’ after her comeback single Woman’s World failed to chart.
According to insiders, she is desperately looking for a new plan to save her musical comeback.
The singer released the lead single from her seventh studio album, 143, last Thursday, but the song — billed as a powerful feminist anthem — was quickly dismissed as unoriginal, hypocritical and predictable.
The Teenage Dream hitmaker also drew criticism for the sexualised nature of the accompanying video, and for her decision to collaborate with music producer Dr Luke, 50, following his high-profile legal battle with Tick Tock singer Kesha, 37.
With the single having plummeted down the US iTunes charts less than a week after its July 11 release, Katy is reportedly in a ‘panic’ and is demanding her team go ‘back to the drawing board’ to prevent her album from suffering the same fate.
‘Katy is freaking out because she’s very aware of the feedback Woman’s World is getting,’ an insider exclusively told DailyMail.com. ‘She’s blaming everyone but herself, but it’s her own fault.’
“I am so excited to be back in Australia and back at the mighty MCG to perform in front of 100,000 of the best and loudest fans in the world at this year’s Toyota AFL Grand Final. See you in September Oi Oi Oi!” she said in a statement on Thursday
According to the source, the biggest risk Katy took was reconnecting with Dr. Luke, the music producer who worked on her hit singles, including 2008’s I Kissed a Girl and 2010’s California Gurls, before she was later accused of sexual, physical and emotional abuse by Kesha.
The superproducer, whose real name is Łukasz Gottwald, denied all allegations, including Kesha’s claim that he raped Katy – something she denied.
Some of Katy’s fans have defended the star, claiming she was forced to work with Dr. Luke due to contractual obligations. However, Katy previously confirmed she has no ties to the producer.
During her 2018 testimony for Kesha’s lawsuit against Dr. Luke, Katy confirmed that she had only signed a three-album deal with Dr. Luke’s Kemosabe Records and that the two no longer had a contractual relationship.
She also acknowledged the public feedback she would receive if she chose to collaborate with Dr. Luke during his battle with Kesha.
“If we were to work with him at this point, we would not be well received because of this lawsuit,” she said.
It comes after DailyMail.com revealed that Katy is ‘pointing fingers at everyone but herself’ after her comeback single, Woman’s World, failed to set the charts alight. She has teamed up with long-time collaborator Dr Luke again, in the wake of his court case with Kesha
When asked if she thought the collaboration with Dr. Luke would have a potential impact on the success of a future release, the Dark Horse singer replied: “[People would] protest against it, a smear campaign, just 20 different stories than mine.’
After DailyMail.com previously revealed that Katy had been warned not to collaborate with Dr Luke on the new album, the source confirmed that the Roar singer had ignored the pleas.
“She was insane to think Dr. Luke was a good idea. She didn’t listen to anyone,” the insider said. “Instead of diving deep and making art, she released something that sounded like it could have been on one of her 2010 albums.”
Not only did Katy collaborate with the producer, the song was also largely co-written with men.
The source claimed that Katy is now demanding that they go ‘back to the drawing board’ before releasing any more singles and that they are even ‘adjusting the album now’
Dr. Luke, Aaron Joseph, Vaughn Oliver, and Rocco Did It Again! all co-wrote and produced the song. Katy and Chloe Angelides are the only women who contributed to the song’s writing.
There is no woman who produced the album.
“You don’t make a song about female empowerment with just men,” the source said.
‘Katy can’t identify with other women because she lives in her celebrity bubble. She doesn’t know anything about what it’s like to be a woman in the real world.
“She doesn’t use her star power to bring about change in the world, she uses it to make money.”